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Short Stories and Insta-Art Vending Machines

We have seen many stories of vending machines offering unique products around the world, but two interesting offerings we’ve seen lately are: short stories and insta-art!

A city in France got the world’s first short story vending machine. The machine has three numbered buttons: 1, 3, and 5 that refer to how many minutes the story will take to read. After choosing the length of the story, the machine will print a long ticket (the short story). Back in January, there were eight short story distributors in Grenoble in the French Alps. People can rent the short story vending machine for 500 euro. The short story machines offered 600 original stories and in the first moth, about 10,000 stories were printed. In the age of technology, the short stories provide a break from reading from screens. Many popular short stories are likely to be sold in vending machines. Hospitals, train stations, airports, amusement parks, museums, and cinemas have said they would be interested in having short story vending machines.

An Art-O-Mat, a retired and re-styled cigarette vending machine, is dispensing small pieces of art including jewelry, sculptures, paintings, and collages from over 400 artists from around the world. This machine is in the Downriver Council for the Arts (DCA) which is an old Masonic Temple in Wyandotte. There are similar vending machines in Las Vegas, Santa Fe, and Australia that allow artists to share their work with a wider audience!

How cool is it that you can get short stories and original art from vending machines? Do you think these types of vending machines will become more popular?